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Reliable and cost-effective electricity has been a hallmark of B.C.'s economy since the 1960s, when hydroelectric power was first harnessed from the Peace and Columbia rivers.
Today, the W.A.C. Bennett and Peace Canyon dams on the Peace River in northeastern B.C. provide more than 30 per cent of the province's electricity needs. And since these two facilities were paid for years ago, they generate very inexpensive power for our province, as they will continue to do in the year 2035 and beyond.
This multi-generational benefit is a key legacy of hydroelectric development in B.C. After a significant upfront capital cost, large hydro projects like the Bennett and Peace Canyon dams have low operating costs and a very long life of more than 100 years. In fact, with reinvestment over the long term, the operating life of these facilities can be indefinite.
While previous investments in hydroelectric power have served us well, there are challenges ahead. The demand for electricity in B.C. is forecast to increase by about 50 per cent in the next 20 years. This increase in demand is being driven by a projected population increase of more than one million people and economic expansion, particularly in the resource sector.
As extensive as BC Hydro's electricity supply is, it will not be enough to meet B.C.'s future needs if demand continues to grow as projected.
To meet growing electricity needs, BC Hydro's first choice is conservation. In addition, we are upgrading our facilities, building new transmission and distribution infrastructure, purchasing new supplies of clean energy (such as wind, run-of-river hydro, bioenergy), and proposing the Site C Clean Energy Project (Site C).
The project would build on our province's hydroelectric legacy. As the third project on the Peace River, all the water passing through the W.A.C. Bennett and Peace Canyon dams would also pass through Site C. By taking advantage of water already stored upstream in the Williston Reservoir, Site C would generate about 35 per cent of the energy produced at the Bennett Dam with only five per cent of the reservoir area.
Site C would provide up to 1,100 megawatts of capacity, and produce an average of 5,100 gigawatt hours of electricity each year. To put this in perspective, that would be enough energy to power the equivalent of about 450,000 homes per year in B.C., although, with our integrated electricity system, all BC Hydro customers — residential, commercial and industrial — would benefit from the electricity generated by Site C.
The project offers many other long-term benefits for BC Hydro customers. For example, the project would be among the most cost-effective resource options to help meet B.C.'s future electricity needs. Site C would have an estimated capital cost of $7.9 billion, and it would produce electricity at a cost between $87 and $95 per megawatt hour, which is cheaper than other clean energy alternatives.
In addition, Site C would produce among the lowest levels of greenhouse gas emissions per gigawatt hour compared with other electricity generation options. The project would also provide significant additional benefits, including reliable capacity and flexibility.
This would help with the development of additional intermittent renewable resources, such as wind. Since wind turbines do not produce electricity when the wind is not blowing, they need to be backed up with reliable capacity. An advantage of a large hydro project such as Site C is that it would be able to increase or decrease generation to match the availability of intermittent resources.
The Site C project is now in the early stages of a cooperative federal-provincial environmental assessment process, which will include an independent joint review panel. This process is thorough and is expected to take a total of about three years to complete. It will include multiple opportunities for timely and meaningful participation by the public, aboriginal groups, governments and other interested stakeholders.
As part of the environmental assessment process, BC Hydro is identifying and assessing potential project effects — environmental, economic, social, heritage and health — and options to avoid or mitigate any adverse impacts of the project. In addition, BC Hydro is identifying opportunities to provide lasting benefits for the region.
Site C would contribute to the local and provincial economy through construction-related jobs and business opportunities. If approved, Site C would create approximately 7,000 person-years of direct construction employment through the seven-year construction period.
The project is estimated to create up to 35,000 direct and indirect jobs through all stages of development and construction.
Like the Bennett and Peace Canyon dams before it, Site C would be a publicly owned asset, providing clean, reliable and cost-effective electricity for generations of British Columbians.
Susan Yurkovich is executive vice-president, Site C with BC Hydro.

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WASHINGTON - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who helped force the military to allow gays in its ranks, is determined to upend laws governing how the armed services handle an epidemic of sexual assaults.
The tenacious 46-year-old just may prevail.
"She has spunk. She is not afraid," says former New York Gov. David Paterson, who stunned the political world in January 2009 when he appointed the little-known, two-term congresswoman to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to be secretary of state.
In a headline-grabbing turn of events, a child of Camelot, Caroline Kennedy, bowed out of contention. The Democratic governor settled on a child of tough Albany, N.Y., politics, and Gillibrand entered the Senate as its youngest member.
Four years later, she is locked in a ferocious fight with some of the Senate's more authoritative voices on the military.
Earlier this year, outrage over high-profile cases of sexual assault in the military and increasing numbers of service men and women fearful about reporting the crimes forced Congress to press for significant changes in military law and how the services deal with the victims.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, the six-term Michigan Democrat who is retiring next year, proposed far-reaching policy changes, with the support of the Pentagon's top brass.
But Gillibrand, chairwoman of the Armed Services personnel subcommittee, countered that the approach was wrong.
She is slowly and steadily building support for a proposal to strip commanders of their authority to prosecute cases of sexual assault, instead handing responsibility to seasoned military lawyers. She now has 44 backers, including Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., who signed on last week, as well as conservative Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
She's relentless in trying to attract support for the bill. Gillibrand telephoned Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on a Saturday. He hasn't taken a stand on either measure yet; nor has Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
As starting pitcher on the congressional women's softball team, Gillibrand used early morning practices to lobby her teammates.
The competing measures are set for a late summer showdown that already has deeply divided the Senate, pitting some of the newer Republicans and Democrats less deferential to the Pentagon's demands against Senate experts on defense. The fight crosses gender and party affiliations and in the last few weeks has touched off a furious competition, even by Capitol Hill standards, with dueling news conferences, testimonials from retired military and statements from former prosecutors-turned-senators.
The high-profile issue has helped add Gillibrand's name to chatter about 2016 presidential candidates, a notion she says she finds flattering. But in an interview, she says emphatically, "I hope I get to see Hillary Clinton sworn in as our next president, and I intend to help her get elected."
Earlier this year, lawmakers were furious after learning that a senior Air Force official had overturned the conviction of a lieutenant colonel after a jury found him guilty of aggravated sexual assault, and there was no further recourse, not even by top leaders at the Pentagon.
Other episodes at the U.S. Naval Academy and West Point, combined with a Pentagon report on a survey estimating that as many as 26,000 military members may have been sexually assaulted last year, spurred lawmakers to act. The survey said thousands of victims were still unwilling to come forward despite new oversight and assistance programs aimed at curbing the crimes.
Gillibrand's measure would remove commanders from the process of deciding whether serious crimes, including sexual misconduct cases, go to trial. That judgment would rest instead with seasoned trial lawyers who have prosecutorial experience and hold the rank of colonel or above.
"The chain of command is really an impediment for solving it because it's resulting in underreporting, no transparency, no accountability," Gillibrand said in an interview last week. "The crux of the issue is objectivity. They (victims) don't believe the commanders can be objective, that commanders either know the victim or know the perpetrator or have a reason to support the perpetrator, who is more senior, more decorated, gone on more missions than the victim."
She said "that lack of objectivity is what creates the fear that justice won't be done."
Levin's proposal, which was adopted by the Armed Services panel on a 17-9 vote, is designed to increase pressure on senior commanders to prosecute sexual assault cases by requiring a top-level review if they fail to do so. He also would make it a crime to retaliate against victims who report a sexual assault and also calls on the Pentagon to relieve commanders who fail to create a climate receptive for victims.
"The power to initiate court martials is perhaps the strongest weapon commanders have," Levin told reporters in a conference call this past week. He argued that to remove that power - as Gillibrand's idea would do - "actually weakens the effort to change the climate and bring the perpetrators to justice."
Levin has the support of Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., former prosecutors, as well as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a member of the Air Force Reserves.
Graham said he's not willing to push commanders aside on the matter and replace their judgment with that of a judge advocate general, a position he once held in the armed forces. "I think this is an issue that commanders need to be held accountable for rather than removed from," he said.
The issue has touched off a flurry of "myth vs. fact" sheets and letters from advocacy groups and Pentagon leaders in the weeks leading up to expected September votes on the proposals, likely the most contentious issue in the debate over the sweeping defense policy bill.
The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women, on behalf of 37 organizations, endorsed Gillibrand's effort, saying: "An impartial prosecutor, making decisions based on the facts of the case, will embolden survivors to report." Adm. James Winnefeld, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a July 23 letter to Levin that "commanders recognized the need to hold service members accountable for their crimes both for the sake of justice, and to preserve good order and discipline."
Late Friday, in a clear reflection of concern about the outcome, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to all Senate Republicans warning that taking the power from commanders would be a "grave mistake." His letter criticized the misconceptions that have emerged.
Connecticut's former attorney general, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, has backed Gillibrand's effort, as has longtime Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, who says simply: "The status quo is not working, and we need to shake it up."
Gillibrand has pushed hard since arriving in the Senate. A wife and mother of two young boys, Theo, 9, and Henry, 5, she handily won in 2010 and again last year when she sought a full six-year term.
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., recalls the persistence she displayed in trying to get health benefits for first responders to the Sept. 11 terror attacks and persuading the military to drop its decades-old policy of barring gays from serving openly in the services.
He remembers when a senator "came up to me and said, `Look I know you're for this. I'm thinking about it. Please tell Kirsten Gillibrand to stop pestering me about it. She's killing me.'"
Fellow New York Democrat, Rep. Joe Crowley, calls her dogged. "It's kind of what we expect in New York," he says. Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., describes Gillibrand as a "pit bull."
Paterson, who says he considered naming current New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Israel before picking Gillibrand, was widely criticized for the selection of the largely unknown upstate lawmaker.
"She's achieved way beyond my greatest expectations," he says.


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Dear Ms. Vicki,
I am a newlywed military wife and I am embracing this role with honor.
I actually hate it when people say, "Yeah, you're just newlywed. You'll see soon." I'm like, "Really? How about 'Wow, great attitude girl'!" :)
In my heart, I actually want do the things that you do, and work as a counseling psychologist or as a social worker one day. I know we have the education centers on post to go to for advice. But will you please let me know how you made it in this career?
I know you have a Master of Social Work, and I know that's what needed. But do you think it's OK to have another kind of Bachelor's degree (such as Legal Studies, for example, which can give me a job) rather than the Bachelor of Psychology (which will get me faster to the Master's, but I don't know what jobs I'll get with that).
I know you're not an education counselor, but I have a sincere desire to help people, and I was wondering if you can share a few tips.
Sincerely, CP
Dear CP,
I would be a great recruiter for the social work profession! We need good social workers. I think I chose the profession because it is a very portable career for a military spouse.
A career in social work could open many doors for you in social policy, direct care as a therapist, prevention and education, etc. More importantly, it leads to licensure very quickly. I have a bachelor's degree in sociology/psychology.
I understand your desire to get employable skills. That's important too. I don't see any problem with that at all. You can get the BA in legal studies and still continue with social work.
I'm sure you will make the right decision and that things will work out in your favor. Please keep in touch with me along the way about your decisions.
Sincerely, Ms. Vicki
Dear Ms. Vicki,
Me and my husband got married at the beginning of this year in Korea, but he left shortly after that to come to the States. While we were apart he started hanging out with this girl.
He started ignoring my calls and not talking to me, but I had orders to come to the States not long after so I thought me coming here with him would make things better.
But he doesn't even kiss me, doesn't touch me or even sleep in the same bed with me. After two months of me being here with him, I found out that the girl he was just so-called "friends" with is pregnant by him.
He told me he doesn't want to be with me and says he's not in love with me anymore, but I don't want to give up on my marriage so soon because it hasn't even been a year yet, but he still wants a divorce.
Sincerely, Hanging On
Dear Hanging On,
How in the world are you supposed to make a marriage work when you husband is saying he doesn't want to be married to you anymore, is detached from you both physically and emotionally, and has impregnated his girlfriend?
Help me out, because I'm clueless too.
Listen, you can stay and try to fight for your marriage. It's your choice. I cannot tell you to leave or stay. However, these are serious problems that are ruining your marriage. (Please know that I'm on your side and I'm not blaming you at all.)
Two things to take away from this: Either you married a cheater and it's only a matter of time before he hooks up with someone else and falls in love with them. Or he is saying that he made a terrible mistake by marrying you and he wants out. Either way, this is not good for you. His behavior is disrespectful and you deserve better.
Maybe marriage counseling would help. Whether he agrees to marriage counseling or not, I would highly suggest that you consider visiting with a good therapist for support and insight.
I really think you deserve better. Again, I'm not coming down hard on you; I only want what's best for you. If this woman is really pregnant and you stay with your husband, you have to reconcile that this child will be a part of your life too. As a result, you cannot have any animosity toward the child because it's not the child's fault.
From the tone of your letter, it seems that you wouldn't blame the child. Please take care of yourself and give me an update when you can.
Sincerely, Ms. Vicki


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New Evangelization Top Priority for Fargo's New Bishop
Msgr. John Folda, the successor to now-Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila, will be installed tomorrow.
FARGO, N.D. — Msgr. John Folda, who will be installed tomorrow as bishop of the Fargo Diocese, looks forward to promoting the Catholic faith in eastern North Dakota.
"My challenge will really be how to implement the New Evangelization here in the Diocese of Fargo and to help the faith to flourish," Bishop-elect Folda told Catholic News Agency June 17.
"I hope I can ... positively promote and share the faith with others," he said, noting the example of his own longtime bishop, Fabian Bruskewitz of the Lincoln Diocese.
On April 8, Pope Francis appointed Msgr. Folda the eighth bishop of Fargo, succeeding Bishop Samuel Aquila, who was transferred to the Denver Archdiocese in 2012.
He will be consecrated a bishop tomorrow by Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis, at Fargo's Cathedral of St. Mary.
Msgr. Folda had been ordained a priest of the Diocese of Lincoln and served as rector of St. Gregory the Great Minor Seminary for 14 years prior to his appointment as bishop of Fargo.
"I just look forward to meeting the people of the diocese," he said. "I've had an opportunity to meet quite a few of the priests already, and I want to get to know them better as soon as possible. ... They're the people I'll work with most closely, so that's a priority."
"Visiting as many parishes as I can and different institutions of the diocese, really just getting to know the Diocese of Fargo — that's going to be my first priority, and that's what I'm looking forward to."
"I think that's always really enjoyable for a bishop, to first just travel around a little bit" and get to meet the people of his diocese, Bishop-designate Folda added.
Initially, he plans to learn about his new diocese, becoming familiar with its parishes, schools and institutions, as well as the priests, deacons, religious sisters and seminarians in Fargo. "I'm kind of in my learning, my homework stage; I have to do my research and meet people."
He did add that the New Evangelization "is certainly on everyone's mind right now and on mine," and that it will be an emphasis of his episcopacy.
As a seminary rector for so many years, Bishop-designate Folda said that Catholic education and priestly vocations will be particular "areas of interest" to him, but that "those are just two of the facets of a very big project."
His 14 years as rector of St. Gregory's has "helped me to understand the priesthood better," he reported. "I think I have a much better understanding of the needs not just of seminarians, but of priests themselves," having seen many seminarians move towards priestly life.
"Certainly I think I have a better understanding of priestly vocations now, and that is something that any bishop has to be not just interested in, but directly involved with."
"I think I'll be able to hit the ground running when it comes to the preparation of our future priests," Msgr. Folda said, and in "inviting men to consider the priesthood."
Bishop-designate Folda served as a priest under now Bishop Emeritus Bruskewitz for 20 years, and he said that he admired his example of energy and joy in teaching the faith.
"It seemed like he never lost his spirit of enthusiasm for our faith. … He certainly wasn't afraid to defend the faith or respond to challenges to the faith, but he always did so with great good humor and with a good spirit, a real positive spirit."
"I hope I can imitate that in my own time as bishop, just to positively promote and share the faith with others."
"I hope I can also have an opportunity to meet with young people and just spend some time with them, get to know them and be a part of their lives," he added. "They are the future of the Church ... so, really, to work with them closely and to get to know them, what's on their minds, where their lives are headed — that's going to be very important for me."
Bishop-designate Folda wants to emphasize "the presence of Christ among us," both in the sacraments and in "the people in the Church." His motto is a Latin phrase from the Gospel of John meaning "And the Word became flesh," and it is meant to remind us "clearly of the dignity of every human being" since Christ took on "our human nature."
"We need to look reverently on our brothers and sisters and appreciate their innate dignity and realize they share this same humanity with Christ our Lord, and that, I think, hopefully imbues our relationships with a higher level of respect and mutual support," he said.
He noted appreciatively that North Dakotans already have a culture of life, which he said he "can only hope to support" and to be involved with. Furthermore, those of his flock he has already met have "a real down-to-earth quality" with a "clear understanding of what's important, what matters."
"That's similar to the people I've known in Nebraska as well, and so I feel a real affinity for the folks I've met up here."
"I'm very happy to be here," Bishop-designate Folda said. "I was very happy to be given this call to serve, and you can't help but be nervous about the challenges of such a large responsibility; but, at the same time, I put my faith in God."
"I trust his grace is always there. For whatever calling he gives, he gives the grace to carry it out — I put my trust in that."


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Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer
2014– Junior Professor of Political Anthropology. University of Konstanz.
2014 Lecturer. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Halle/S., Germany.
2010–2014 Post-Doctoral Researcher. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Halle/S., Germany.
2004–2009 Dr. Phil. (Anthropology). Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg, Germany.
1998–2004 MA (Anthropology, Public and International Law, Slavonic Studies). Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany.
2003 Exchange Student (Kyrgyz Ethnology, Law, Russian and Kyrgyz Language) American University in Central Asia. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Judith Beyer is currently board member of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS); review editor of the legal anthropological platform Allegralaboratory.net, peer-review coordinator for the cross-disciplinary journal Glocalism. Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, member of the Network for Ethnographic Theory, the research network "Plurale Ökologien im Widerstreit: Ethnologische Perspektiven auf Südostasien," and associate member of the European Network on Statelessness (ENS).
Please refer to her personal website with complete CV, research and professional activities as well as scholarships, fellowships, and awards.
Research interests
- law as practice
- legal pluralism
- anthropology of the state
- constitutional politics
- authority
- ethnographic, ethnomethodological and interactional approaches towards politics and law
Function within the Center
Principal Investigator
Junior professor of Political Anthropology
About the junior professorship
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (April 2018–January 2019)
Research project "Communal sense. Religion, property, and corporate Others in Myanmar"
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (April–September 2016)
Research project "Safeguarding possessions. Strategies of urban presence among religious minorities in Myanmar"
Selected publications
2016, The force of custom. Law and the ordering of everyday life in Kyrgyzstan. University of Pittsburgh Press.
2010, (together with Zemfira Inogamova) Baiyz apa zhashoo tarzhymaly [The life history of Baiyz Apa]. Bishkek: Gulchynar. (in Kyrgyz)
2007, (together with Roman Knee) Kirgistan: Ein ethnografischer Bildband über Talas / Kirgistan: A photoethnography of Talas. München: Hirmer-Verlag (in German and English
Edited Volume
2014, (together with Madeleine Reeves and Johan Rasanayagam) Ethnographies of the state: Performing politics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
2015 (with Felix Girke) Practicing harmony ideology. Ethnographic reflections on community and coercion. Common Knowledge. Special issue: Peace by other means. Symposium on the role of ethnography and the humanities in the understanding, prevention, and resolution of enmity. Part 3, edited by Jeffrey Perl. Volume 21,2. pp. 196-235.
2015 Customizations of law. Courts of elders (aksakal courts) in rural and urban Kyrgyzstan. PoLAR. Special issue: edited by Melissa Demian. Volume 38,1. pp. 53-71.
2015, Finding the law in Myanmar. In: Anthropology Today Vol 31 No 4, August 2015, 3-7. online
2013, Ordering ideals. Accomplishing well-being in a Kyrgyz cooperative of elders. Central Asian Survey. Special issue: Negotiating well-being in Central Asia. Volume 32,4. pp. 432-447.
2013, Constitutional faith. Law and hope in revolutionary Kyrgyzstan. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. DOI-Number: 10.1080/00141844.2013.841270. Published through iFirst.
2011, Settling descent. Place-making and genealogy in Talas, Kyrgyzstan. In: Reeves, Madeleine (ed.) Movement, power and place. in Central Asia. Central Asian Survey 30 (3-4). pp. 455-468
2006, Revitalisation, invention and continued existence of the Kyrgyz aksakal courts: Listening to pluralistic accounts of history. In: Benda-Beckmann, Franz von and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (eds.) Dynamics of plural legal orders. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. Volume 53/54. pp. 141-175
2016, Houses of Islam. Muslims, property rights and the state in Myanmar. In: Crouch, Melissa (ed.): Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging. Oxford University Press, pp. 127-155.
e-mail judith.beyer[at]uni-konstanz.de
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New HTTP Endpoints Create SQL Server 2005 Web Services
SQL Server 2000 offers some capabilities for returning XML output via HTTP using SQLXML—and, of course, SQLXML supports Web services creation. Although not rocket science, setting up, configuring, and using Web services in SQL Server 2000 does require a little effort (see the SQLXML documentation about Web services in SQL Server 2000).
When .NET came about, people began writing Web services in C# or VB.NET. They simply connected into SQL Server (or any data store, for that matter) to retrieve the data. .NET made creating Web services as simple as 1-2-3:
- Create some stored procedures.
- Write some WebMethods to return the data from said stored procedures.
- Presto! You have a Web service.
But now, the next generation of Web services is hitting the streets. SQL Server 2005 supports native HTTP SOAP via a feature known as HTTP Endpoints. For those who don't know, Simple Object Access Protocol (affectionately known as SOAP) is a lightweight messaging protocol that Webopedia defines as follows:
"Short for Simple Object Access Protocol, a lightweight XML-based messaging protocol used to encode the information in Web service request and response messages before sending them over a network. SOAP messages are independent of any operating system or protocol and may be transported using a variety of Internet protocols, including SMTP, MIME, and HTTP."
This new HTTP Endpoints feature in SQL Server 2005 is the subject of this article.
HTTP Endpoints
So what is an HTTP Endpoint? You may have heard that it is SQL Server 2005's means for creating Web services, but it actually is much more. An HTTP Endpoint also is a means of creating interfaces via HTTP or TCP for SOAP, T?SQL, Service Broker, and even database mirroring. Although these other functions are very intriguing, this discussion concerns only the ability to create Web services in SQL Server—Web services that can return rowset data, scalar values, messages, and even errors, all of which are serialized into XML automatically. And, an HTTP Endpoint does all of this without requiring you to install IIS (it uses the Windows 2003 kernel module http.sys).
Because I like to learn from examples, I am going to teach by example. I demonstrate how to use HTTP Endpoints by walking through an example from start to finish. Before starting, here are a few notes to consider:
- This demonstration uses the new demo database called AdventureWorks.
- Native HTTP SOAP in SQL Server 2005 is not supported on Windows XP. If you want to try the examples, you need Windows Server 2003.
- SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (the new MSDE) does not support HTTP Endpoints, so be sure to install the Developer Edition.
- I do not explain how to use SQL Server Management Studio to execute SQL scripts. I trust you know how to do this.
Because HTTP Endpoints are a server-level feature, security of endpoints is also on the server level. Of course, the serveradmin system role can create, alter, and drop endpoints from the SQL Server instance, but how do you allow developers to manage these endpoints without giving them the excessive permissions of this system role?
The answer lies in SQL Server 2005's new ability to assign server-level permissions to logins, as shown here:
GRANT ALTER ANY HTTP ENDPOINT TO peter
With this command, you can allow the peter login to manage HTTP Endpoints without giving other unnecessary permissions. The following is a list of permissions that you can modify via GRANT, DENY, or REVOKE:
{GRANT|DENY|REVOKE} ALTER ANY ENDPOINT TO LoginControls the ability to alter any HTTP Endpoint; also allows permission to transfer ownership and connect to any endpoint
{GRANT|DENY|REVOKE} ALTER ON ENDPOINT:: EndPointName TO LoginControls whether a login can alter a specific HTTP Endpoint; also allows permission to transfer ownership and connect to the specified endpoint
{GRANT|DENY|REVOKE} CONTROL ON ENDPOINT:: EndPointName TO LoginControls whether a login can alter or drop a specific HTTP Endpoint; also allows permission to transfer ownership and connect to the specified endpoint
{GRANT|DENY|REVOKE} CONNECT ON ENDPOINT:: EndPointName TO LoginControls whether or not a login can connect to (execute requests against) an HTTP Endpoint
{GRANT|DENY|REVOKE} TAKE OWNERSHIP ON ENDPOINT:: EndPointName TO LoginControls whether a login can take ownership of the HTTP Endpoint
{GRANT|DENY|REVOKE} VIEW DEFINITION ON ENDPOINT:: EndPointName TO LoginControls the ability for a login to see the metadata (definition) of the HTTP Endpoint
Consider one last example. If I want to deny the peter login the ability to use an HTTP Endpoint named SQLEP_Financial, I would execute the following statement:
DENY CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::SQLEP_Financial TO peter
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Fruits De Mer, the UK-based vinyl-only label, consistently finds inventive ways to package music from its roster of prog and psychedelic artists. A prime example is the recently released 7 And 7 Is box set, which has seven 45 RPM singles on what the press release describes as "a subtle mix of red, white and blue" vinyl. Each record in this limited-edition collection features a current band covering two songs by an American group from the 1960s (or on one of the singles, two current bands covering two '60s bands). As with previous Fruits de Mer efforts of this kind, the music covered here is far afield from the Top Forty hits of the day.
The Higher State brings a distinct garage rock sound to "Wait For My Love" and "You Don't Know," which were originally recorded by 13th Floor Elevators, while The Bevis Frond takes a hard-edged swing at "Night Sounds" by Clear Light. King Penguin crafts an exotic ambience on its cover of The Byrds' "5D (Fifth Dimension)," and Black Tempest eases into a faithful take on Spirit's "Nature's Way" after a few moments of distorted voices and sound effects. Sendelica opens "Hard Coming," originally done by United States Of America, with over a minute of Jimi Hendrix style guitar heroics, and The Seventh Ring Of Saturn likewise unleashes some wailing guitar on The Grateful Dead's "Cream Puff War."
The Chemistry Set's "A House Is Not A Motel" is the second take I've come across of this gem from Love in the past few months. (The Red Plastic Buddha covered it on their Songs For Mara CD.) The Chemistry Set also succeeds with Love's politically infused "Live And Let Live" and even throws in a bit of The Electric Prunes' "Get Me To The World On Time" toward the end. All in all, another adventurous release from Fruits de Mer.


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Videos | February 18, 2009
Europa Jupiter System Mission
Can there be life elsewhere? A proposed mission to Jupiter's icy moons would explore Europa and Ganymede.
Transcript:Robert Pappalardo, Europa Orbiter Study Scientist
Can there be life elsewhere? Where are the habitable environments in our solar system?
Mars is an obvious place to think about, but so are the icy worlds of the outer solar system; where beneath their surfaces there may be liquid water oceans.
The Europa Jupiter System Mission is a partnership between ESA and NASA to send two spacecraft to the Jupiter system; one to orbit Europa, the other to orbit Ganymede, to understand what we're phrasing as the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants.
Title: The Europa Jupiter System Mission will study Jupiter's four largest moons
Robert Pappalardo, Europa Orbiter Study Scientist
The subsurface oceans are certainly the key driver for exploration of these worlds.
Europa is a fascinating place with an ocean that might be only tens of kilometers below the surface and they communicate actively with the surface through eruptions, through icy convection - blobs of warm ice moving up to the surface through cracking, the breaking of the ice.
So there could be signs on the surface of what's going on deep down below the surface.
So what we can do with a spacecraft in orbit around Europa is measure how Europa flexes, as it's stretched by Jupiter's gravity.
That tells us something very specific about how stiff that ice shell is, and by how stiff it is we can get a measure of its thickness.
Europa is a maybe rarer example of an ocean in contact with a rocky mantle.
Ganymede actually might be a more common example of an ocean where it's an ocean sandwich; ice above and below.
Callisto, a relatively dead world, has not the amount of activity that Europa and Ganymede have, yet we think that Callisto has an ocean beneath its surface.
It's not out of the question that if there are liquid water oceans down there and there's heat and there's energy, that there could possibly be life.
The Europa spacecraft will make three or four close flybys of Io, the most volcanically active world in our solar system. In fact, we might even be able to fly through one of these volcanic plumes and sample the material that's spewing out.
And we're not going to forget the big guy either, Jupiter. We're going to be able to make observations of Jupiter and its rings as we orbit for about two years.
What's really compelling about these worlds is our search for whether there is life elsewhere, not just in the solar system but in the universe. Can these be habitable environments? That's really what drives these worlds to the top of the list of places to explore.
Title: Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology


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Cherrybrook Technology High School
Intricate links exist between the wellbeing of the human population and Earth. As technological developments deplete Earth's resources, nature begins to lose her vitality. While corporate and individual greed turn a blind eye to the increasingly degraded environment, a reality 'health' check reveals the damage civilisation has imposed upon the land. This 'plague' of urbanisation and industrialisation grows from the darkened coasts into inland areas, like deadly cancers consuming the human body. Hence, my work portrays the parallels between the health of Earth and of humanity. It is by protecting our planet that our own wellbeing can be sustained.
Influencing artists: John Olsen, Edward Burtynsky, Fred Williams
Compare and contrast Beneath the surface by Jaimei Liu and Five bells by John Olsen. Look in particular at the similarities and differences in subject matter, technique, materials and meanings.
Like Liu, base a body of work on an environmental issue that is important to you. Carefully consider the relationship between the concept and the use of material and technique to express your point of view.


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Latest Neurology News
Study Shows About Half of Epilepsy Patients Are Free of Seizures 10 Years After Surgery
By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD
Oct. 13, 2011 -- About half of surgically treated adults with epilepsy remain seizure-free a decade later, a large follow-up study of epilepsy surgery shows.
Researchers followed more than 600 patients for as long as 19 years after seizure-control surgery. They found that 52% were not having seizures (except for simple partial seizures) after five years; 47% remained seizure free after 10 years. Simple partial seizures are a type of seizure confined to a limited area of the brain, not associated with loss of consciousness.
Once considered a last resort for patients with few other treatment options, surgery is now a relatively safe and common therapeutic strategy for seizure control.
"These days if a patient has failed two or three medications we might consider surgery because it has become much safer and more effective over the last few decades," says Ashesh Mehta, MD, who is director of epilepsy surgery at the North Shore-LIJ Health System Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Institute in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
Epilepsy Treatment
About 2 million Americans have epilepsy, a term used to describe several different brain disorders that cause frequent seizures.
According to Mehta, who did not take part in the new study, about two-thirds of adult epilepsy patients achieve good seizure control with drug treatments.
"The rest have seizures that do not respond to drugs, and these are the patients who could benefit the most from surgical treatment," he says.
In the newly published study, researchers from University College London and King's College London followed 615 epilepsy patients for an average of eight years after surgery in an effort to better understand long-term outcome patterns.
They reported their findings in the Oct. 15 issue of The Lancet.
The average patient had experienced seizures for about two decades before having surgery. All of the surgeries were conducted at London's National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery from early 1990 to late 2008.
Early recurrence of seizures following surgery was the strongest predictor of poor long-term seizure control. But four out of five patients had at least one year with no seizures or with only minor seizures.
Avoiding Epilepsy Relapse
"The longer a person stayed seizure free, the less likely they were to relapse," researcher John S. Duncan, MD, and colleagues write.
About 40% of patients had long-term complete freedom from seizures after surgery. An additional 11% experienced only simple, partial seizures.
None of the patients experienced a worsening of seizures following surgery.
Although 82% of patients had at least one year with no seizures or minor seizures following surgery, the researchers noted that this did not indicate a cure.
Many patients remained on anti-seizure drugs, although 28% of patients who were seizure free at the last follow-up were off all medications.
The researchers conclude that patients whose seizures are not controlled with drugs may benefit from surgery earlier in the course of their disease.
"Surgery is successful for many individuals in whom anti-epileptic drugs have not been effective, but further improvements need to be made to pre-surgical assessment to further increase rates of success," they write.


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Wednesday January 2nd: The Heart Gallery
There are dozens of children in New Hampshire and thousands across the country who are living in foster care and hoping to find a forever home. Some local photographers are pitching in to help make their dreams come true. Through a project called "the Heart Gallery" they volunteer their time to take portraits of children up for adoption. The idea is that when a prospective adoptive family sees these kids faces, they may see a bit of their soul too.
Plus, in this country families eat pizza about 30 times a year, but instead of take-out you can make your own thanks to a Pittsfield Company. Rustic Crust is the number one all-natural and organic pizza crust brand in the country. Its founder, Brad Sterl, is passionate about old world pizza making and believes families deserve more than a processed food meentality, that's why he's been dubbed the "crust Crusader".
And on Fritz Wetherbee's New Hampshire: Saved by a Bag of Beans in Suncook.
For more information on tonight's stories:
Heart Gallery
New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth, and Families
Concord, NH
Rustic Crust
Pittsfield, NH
Hosting this week from:
Tuscan Kitchen and Tuscan Market
Salem, NH
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Made by Debenham & Co, Beverley, this film records the City of Hull's Victory in Europe Celebrations, May 1945; it includes extensive footage of all servicemen and women who participated in the victory processions and salute at Victoria Square.
This film features the R100 airship's maiden flight from Howden to Cardington on 16th December, 1929. Also featured in the film are Sir C Burney, who built the ship, and Major Scott, the captain.
This is a film from the Noel Beardsell Collection of family trips to Flamborough, Wentworth Woodhouse, and London.
Made in October, 1950, this film features the Bird Observatory at Spurn Point. Members of the working party examine and ring many of the birds as well as record their observations.
On June 18th, 1942, a Founder's Day ceremony took place at Beverley Minster. It was attended by the Lord Mayor, members of the clergy, army cadets and scouts. Members of the local community were also in attendance. The film was made by Ernest Symmons who owned the Beverley Playhouse Cinema. He filmed local events for newsreels which he would show before a main feature.
This is a film of workers constructing a cross section of track at Chalk Lane railway sidings located on the outskirts of Hull. It has been filmed in real time at ½ second intervals.
This film documents a fund raising event for the Green Howards, an infamous Yorkshire regiment. Salute the Soldier week features a procession from international regiments, speeches from senior military leaders (Charles De Gaule is possibly in attendance) and local dignitaries. Other fund raisings schemes include an open air service.
This film records the events of 'Wings for Victory' week held in Bridlington and District 12th to 19th June 1943. The military agencies and local community join to raise money to pay for new aeroplanes that will be used to help Britain win the Second World War.
This is a film by Charles Chislett of his family at home and visiting a nearby farm where they observe typical farm life. The film features Chislett's daughter Rachel and other small children playing in the garden and at Christmas.
This film features a family trip to Whitby Beach.
This film is a compilation of family scenes from the Arnett family including waterskiing, time at the beach, and playing in the back garden.
Part of the Pashley Collection, this film contains footage of a holiday to Holy Island as well as a day out in Bridlington.
Part one of a training film made by the army in Yorkshire that shows the best methods of camouflage and fieldcraft for the Home Guard. Using short clips of film footage and intertitles are used throughout to explain the right and wrong way to carry out their certain manoeuvres.
Part two of a training film made by the army in Yorkshire that shows the best methods of camouflage and fieldcraft for the Home Guard. Using short clips of film footage and intertitles the film explains the right and wrong way to carry out their duties.
Part three of a training film made by the army in Yorkshire that shows the best methods of camouflage and fieldcraft for the Home Guard. Using short clips of film footage and intertitles the film explains the right and wrong way to carry out their duties.
This film records the events of a 'Warship Week' fundraising appeal held in Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Each day different events would be held to encourage people to donate money to help build warships for the war effort. Intertitles would precede the events of each day that celebrated Home Front services.
This amateur film, set in Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, shows clear examples of the work that different Home Front agencies undertook during war time. As well as capturing a Warship Week in the heart of the town, the film includes interesting scenes showing a female ARP officer going about her work.
This is a film from Bridlington showing various events during 1942, including a campaign to forge links between the youth of Britain and America, a visit by Lady Mountbatten, Armistice Sunday, a procession of wartime service personnel, and a celebration of the victory in Libya.
This film documents the building of the Humber Bridge from its beginnings and through various stages of construction. The film includes the opening ceremonies and the disaster that befell construction in March, 1980.
This documents construction work at Bridlington Town Hall. The work involved laying sewer piping across the garden, which involves a large amount of excavation work. Aside from the construction, the film opens with shots of a coastline and beach.
This is a film taken by H. W. Lyon of Market Weighton Railway Station and sidings just before they closed. The second half is filmed by Tom Greenwood as they were being demolished.
This film records the work of a local grocery store in Market Weighton. The film was made by the owner of the store.
This is a film featuring holiday makers in Bridlington, Flamborough Head and Filey Bay.
Shortly after returning from her famous flight to Australia, Amy Johnson visited Hedon on 11th August, 1930. This film documents her visit and includes footage of her plane and her meeting with the Mayor and Mayoress.
This film, made by Debenham & Co. of York, was made in order to raise money for the dependents of war casualties as well as soldiers disabled during the conflicts of World War I. It features a mixture of drama and actuality footage.


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New York City's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, gives a brief update on a horrific fire, in the Breezy Point section of New York City's, that charred "more than 80 homes."
Updated at 1:35 p.m.: NEW YORK -- At least 80 homes were destroyed in the New York City borough of Queens in a six-alarm fire that raged overnight and into the daylight amid neck-deep floodwaters.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said firefighters contained the blaze at Breezy Point, Queens, by 11 a.m. on Tuesday, a full 12 hours after it was reported to the New York City Fire Department.
Damage is seen Tuesday after a fire in Breezy Point, Queens.
The fire erupted at the peak of the storm in a Zone A area, which the New York City Office of Emergency Management declared to be the highest risk of flooding from Superstorm Sandy's surge.
FDNY spokesperson Michael Parrella told NBC News that nearly 200 firefighters were on the scene by 5 a.m. Tuesday, battling high winds that made the flames difficult to knock down.
"The winds were just devastating, blowing from one building to the next one," Bloomberg said.
With floodwater from the storm filling the street, firefighters had to use a boat to make rescues, the Associated Press reported. Fire department officials said about 25 people were trapped in the upstairs unit of one apartment, and the two-story home next door was ablaze and setting fire to the apartment's roof. Firefighters climbed an awning to rescue the trapped people and took them downstairs to a boat in the street.
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Residents stand among homes in Breezy Point, Queens, Tuesday devastated by a fire and the effects of Hurricane Sandy.
The six-alarm blaze ravaged through several blocks and destroyed more than 80 buildings, Parrella said, but there were pockets still smoldering Tuesday morning.
City officials said it appeared most of the area was evacuated prior to the fire, and no serious injuries were reported, NBCNewYork.com reported.
New York State Assembly member Phillip Goldfeder, who represents the district that includes Breezy Point, said the small coastal area, which contains about 3,500 homes, sustained "immeasurable damage" from the storm.
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Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.
"In Breezy Point, whatever is not flooded is on fire," Goldfeder told NBC News. "There are literally rows of older, bungalow-style houses, one on top of the other, and for a fire, this is the worst-case scenario. The strong winds were spreading and fanning the flames at the same time as the flooding."
"No one could respond for a while, and when they did, they did not have anywhere near close to the resources they needed," Goldfeder said, adding that three area volunteer fire departments were working alongside the FDNY through the night to contain the blaze.
One firefighter sustained minor injuries and was transported to an area hospital, Parrella said.
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A fire that ravaged through the flooded Breezy Point neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens destroyed at least 80 homes.
Emergency crews began canvassing the area at dawn Tuesday to make sure no one was trapped in any of the gutted homes, NBCNewYork.com reported. Goldfeder said residents of the impacted areas were still trying to make their way out of the wreckage by Tuesday afternoon.
"We're not in recovery mode yet," Goldfeder said. "Some residents are still in harm's way, some are in slightly better shape, but everybody's in a really bad place right now."
The cause of the fire was not immediately known, Parrella said.
The Breezy Point neighborhood, which sits on the western edge of the Rockaway peninsula, jutting into the Atlantic Ocean, was historically a summer get-away for many residents of New York. Now, Goldfeder said, about 80 percent of its residents live there year-round.
Reports of the fire came just hours before President Barack Obama signed a major disaster declaration for New York and Long Island in the wake of Hurricane Sandy's destruction, enabling federal aid to assist with storm recovery efforts.
About 170 firefighters were called to the scene in Breezy Point, Queens, where at least 50 homes have caught fire. MSNBC's Chris Jansing reports.
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Here's the trailer:
And here, in dazzling pictoral goodness (click for larger), are some of the nitty gritties.
Many, many trees for the various scenes. The actual trailer was conducted over about five panels.
Close-up of said trees. Light colored for farther away, darker for closer.
A panel that never made it in (that I loved but was ultimately too busy)
A collection of wolf and Grace and Sam parts:
Headless Grace (she had several heads to be able to look down towards Sam the wolf and up to Sam the human) and other parts
The Evolution of Sam. One of them flipped so you can see how most everything was numbered on the back in the order it was supposed to go. I had my sister kneel and stand about eighteen times so that I could quickly sketch the stages and ultimately transfer them to the patterned paper and cut them out.
Wolf parts. All numbered, of course. Their heads are legion.
Close-up of a wolf. See the articulating detachable head. Convenient!
A wolf that didn't get used because I quickly realized I could not animate wolves running and still actually turn in LINGER on time. I'm sticking this puppy (pun totally intended) in one of the giveaway ARCs.
The leaf, in different sizes. Actually my favorite part of the trailer. One of the frames got lost when my camera overheated (there were six lamps in a three foot area for consistent lighting), making the final scene choppier than it was supposed to be, but there wasn't time for a reshoot.
More Grace parts.
Sam and Grace, from an angle to see how they are Frankenstein.


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Xiaomi Redmi Note 7
If your smartphone Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 it works very slow, it hangs, you want to bypass screen lock or you have a full memory and you want to erase everything or you want to sell it or give it away and you want nobody to be able to access your files and passwords you can do a factory reset so that it returns to be like the first day.
In the following steps we explain how to format the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 to erase all your information and make it totally clean as it came out of the store.
You must bear in mind that a reset or return to the factory state in a mobile deletes all its content so you must make a backup of your data before doing it if you do not want to lose everything.
There are two ways to do a reset on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 one through the mobile options and another more complete from the recovery mode.
If you want to make a reset using the device options to return to the factory state a Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 you have to follow these simple steps:
1- First step:
Access the settings menu of your device Xiaomi Redmi Note 7.
2- Second step:
Go to the system settings, in the Personal section you will see the option "Backup" click on it and then click on "Factory data reset". If you do not see the Personal section look for the section "About the phone" click on "Storage" and then on "Backup and restore" and you will see the option "Factory data reset"
3- Third step:
Before doing it, it will ask for confirmation and will show a message remembering that all your data will be deleted from this device, the data that you have uploaded to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or backups that you have in the cloud, such as Google Drive, Dropbox or One Drive will not be deleted.
4- Fourth step:
If necessary, draw the screen unlock pattern or enter the screen unlock password or PIN to continue.
5- Fifth step:
Your device Redmi Note 7 from Xiaomi it will restart and take several minutes to start while restoring the device to its factory state and optimizing the applications pre-installed in the opperative system Android 8.1 Oreo (Go edition).
Restore with hard reset or Recovery mode your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 can solve problems that have not been solved with a normal factory reset.
1- First turn off your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 completely. If you can not unlock the screen, press and hold the power button for about 20 seconds and the phone will turn off.
2- Keep holding on volume down and power keys together for a few seconds in your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7. In some devices according to the Android version the combination can be the power key and the volume key up.
3- When the Xiaomi logo is displayed, release the buttons.
4- Move through the menu with the volume up and volume down keys until you reach the "Recovery Mode" option and press the power button to access.
If the device menu appears in Chinese characters, click here to see how to reset a mobile in Chinese
5- Use the volume up and volume down keys to select the "wipe cache partition" option and press the Power button to activate the option and clear the mobile cache.
6- After a few seconds you will return to the previous screen, with the volume buttons go to the option "wipe data / factory reset" and press the power button to enter. A screen with many NOs and a YES will appear, with the volume keys again go to the YES and press with the power key.
7- After finishing again with the volume keys, click on "reboot system now" and press the power key of your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7, the device will reboot and take several minutes to start while restoring the device to its factory state and optimizing the applications pre-installed in the system Android 8.1 Oreo (Go edition).
About the device:
Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 is a device with a dimensions of 140.4 x 70.1 x 8.4 mm (5.53 x 2.76 x 0.33 in), a weight of 137 grams, a screen resolution of 5.0 inches, 68.9 cm2 (~70.0% screen-to-body ratio).
It has a processor Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53, a graphics card Adreno 308, a RAM memory 1 GB and an internal memory of 8 GB, 1 GB RAM.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 it comes from the factory with the operating system Android 8.1 Oreo (Go edition)
Has it been useful?
Users rating on reset a Redmi Note 74.66 hover 10 (328 votes)


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Hospital Quirónsalud Valencia is ranked as one of the best private schools in Spain, winning nine times in the TOP 20 award in recognition of its management and quality of care.
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This information is intended for general information only and should not be considered as medical advice on the part of Health-Tourism.com. Any decision on medical treatments, after-care or recovery should be done solely upon proper consultation and advice of a qualified physician.
What is a PET scan?
A PET scan (positron emission tomography) is an imaging test that can help reveal how your tissues and organs are functioning. To show this chemical activity, a small amount of radioactive material must enter your body.
The precise type of radioactive material, and its delivery method, depends on which organ or tissue is being studied by the PET scan. The radioactive material may be injected into a vein, inhaled or swallowed.
What are PET scans used for?
Currently, PET scans are most commonly used to detect:
- cancer
- heart problems
- brain disorders
- central nervous system disorders
Is the PET scan painfull?
When the radioactive substance is inserted into your vein you will feel temporary pain.
There shouldn't be any pain during the actual PET scan.
What other tests are combined with a PET scan?
PET scan is often combined with other imaging tests, such as CT scan and MRI.
The combination of the tests improves the clarity of the images and makes it easier for the physician to interpret the results.
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The Northern Marianas College and College Access Challenge Grant program will be hosting a free "Cash for College" workshop that is aimed at assisting
students and their parents in maximizing scholarship opportunities that are available to students seeking to obtain a college education.
The free workshop will be held on Saturday, November 21, 2015 at the NMC As Terlaje campus in Building A. The workshop will be an ongoing session, so
participants can stop by anytime between 9am to3pm.
Participants will be provided with personal, step-by-step assistance in completing college financial aid forms, focusing especially on forms for the Free
Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the Saipan Higher Education Financial Aid (SHEFA), and the CNMI Scholarship.
Staff members from the College's Office of Admissions and Records will also be present to provide information and assistance with the NMC application
It is recommended that workshop participants bring a valid form of identification (e.g., a valid U.S. passport, copy of valid application for a U.S.
passport, birth certificate, or green card), an official transcript from high school (at least three official copies), tax forms, and proof of CNMI
residency for 2013 and 2014, including proof of continuing residency. Applicants for SHEFA should bring a valid U.S. passport or a voter registration card.
The free "Cash for College" workshop is made possible by the financial support of the U.S. Department of Education's College Access Challenge Grant
program. This federal program aims to increase the number of students from underrepresented minority populations enrolled in college.
For additional information, contact the NMC Financial Aid Office at 237-6792 or email [email protected]
Northern Marianas College (NMC) is committed to ensuring that all persons have equal access to its programs, opportunities, and information resources, including those on its institutional website in accordance to the requirements of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
We apologize for any inconvenience as we work on bringing NMC's website into full compliance. For immediate assistance, please contact Lucille Deleon Guerrero by email [email protected] or by calling (670) 237-6874.
If you wish to report an issue related to the accessibility of any content on NMC's website, including a complaint about the accessibility of a document, form, or statement, you may do so by contacting the NMC's IT Department by email at [email protected]. In your email please include the following information:
If you would like to file a formal grievance against the Northern Marianas College pursuant to the requirements of Section 504 and Title II, you may submit such grievance to the Office of the NMC President, P.O. Box 501250, Saipan MP 96950 or email [email protected].
You may also file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) Office for Civil Rights. More information about filing a complaint with USDOE can be found at https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/howto.html.


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Straight No Chaser: "Another Year's" Arch Melancholia
We present an exclusive round table interview with Another Year director Mike Leigh and actors Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville and Ruth Sheen, getting a crash course in the intricacies of the patented Mike Leigh filmmaking process from the maestro and his players.
One of the most essential lessons I've taken away from the work of veteran director Mike Leigh is that taking one's time is of paramount importance, both in life and in cinema. In addition, learning about the way Leigh makes films has impressed on me that the word compromise – except between close collaborators – is not part of an artist's vocabulary. The director, whose fabled six-month immersion method of production is equally renowned and scrutinized, is a master filmmaker who is both deliberate and uncompromising in his vision, and the proof, as they say, is onscreen in the proverbial pudding: Another Year reveals the filmmaker and his frequent collaborators – Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Topsy-Turvy), Lesely Manville (All or Nothing, Secrets & Lies), and Ruth Sheen (Vera Drake, High Hopes) – taking their work to new, daring directions. By illuminating the interiors of their middle- and working-class characters with a focused, powerful spotlight that exposes the flaws, the ugliness, and the complex beauty of their everyday lives.
Another Year ponders the point at which people realize that they have found contentment but still must deal with others who haven't yet and who are far from realizing it. Even worse is that some of them, some of whom we know best and love the most, will never find it. Watching a person unravel can be like watching a train wreck. It can be infuriating. Sometimes it can be riotously funny. The universality of this theme will immediately draw in the viewer, because, hell, we've all been there: What do you do when one of your friends is lost, full of regret and wishes? What happens when as the giver, you've simply had enough of the takers? How much are we expected to take from those we love, who may be fundamentally damaged? At what point do you pull out of toxic relationships? Another Year is a film full of introspective questions such as these, a lean, delicious cinematic treat for those cinephiles who don't like to have obvious, cliché answers shoved down their throats.
Leigh and co. thoughtfully examine the toll that giving takes on a good person, before the tenuous bonds snap like the thin black ice that coats a freshwater lake in early winter. They suggest that one must tread carefully in these kinds of relationships, which go through cycles very much like the motif of the four seasons, visually echoed in beautiful symmetry with the film's four part narrative structure. In these thematic spaces, the director experiments with different rhythms within scenes that allow characters to behave in awkward, funny, tender, and natural ways that shed a warm light on all of the questions being asked, allowing countless interpretations to flourish alongside the full bloom of Tom and Gerri's hearty, prized community garden.
As the key desperate character here, Manville, who recently was awarded the National Board of Review's Best Actress citation, is in heavy contention for an Oscar nomination for her poignant performance as the drunk, addled, yet still-sweet Mary. Her name has been mentioned as frequently, deservedly, alongside as such heavy-hitting Hollywood movie stars as Annette Bening and Julianne Moore (The Kids are All Right), Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole), and Natalie Portman (Black Swan) in one of the most hotly-contested races the category has seen in many years. While Manville is indeed dynamic in the role of Mary, Broadbent and Sheen – as the lonely Mary's frustrated defacto parental figures Tom and Gerri -- equally deserve to be recognized by awards voting bodies and critics for their committed, full-bodied turns as a happily married middle class couple who provide a calm center of respite for the audience from the blowsy force of Hurricane Mary.
Leigh, who has been nominated for six Oscars to date (for writing and directing Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake, and for writing Topsy-Turvy and Happy-Go-Lucky), is also working at the top of his game with Another Year, masterfully blending pathos, humanity, and comedy with a bruising exactness that comes from forty years of refining his craft. There are few – if any -- directors in the world that are afforded the artistic luxury of beginning a project sans script, but Leigh's legend allows him complete artistic autonomy from beginning to end, allowing his cohort of actors and technicians (notably cinematographer Dick Pope) the freedom to make bold, inspiring artistic choices. Though he insisted the last time we talked that he didn't feel destined to take home the Academy Award any time soon, two years and one masterpiece later, the time finally feels right to reward this consistently excellent director's singular vision.
Tucked away in a bright booth in a posh hotel's dining room, during the media blitz madness of the Toronto Film Festival in September, I was able to get a revealing, guided tour through the process of making Another Year from Leigh, Broadbent, Manville, and Sheen.
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The last time we spoke you were headed to the New York Film Critic's Circle dinner to pick up your deserved Best Director award for Happy-Go-Lucky. Was Another Year gestating at that point?
Mike Leigh: Actually on that very day – literally – we got the green light for this film, which happened on quite short notice. We'd rather given up. Until a thing is green-lit – I've got ideas floating around.
When you begin writing, do you have specific actors in mind?
Mike Leigh: No I don't, because I don't write! We don't have a script. We collaborate and make the film up as we go along. Obviously when the actors take part in it, I have vague notions of it, very vague, because it is in the nature of life. You've got these extraordinarily talented people sitting around the table. They're all incredibly versatile. You just know that there is an infinite cornucopia of possibilities as to where you might go.
Where does the idea for the seasonal theme come from?
Mike Leigh: Well, actually, it's the coming together of a whole lot of different things. I was trying to find a way of expressing that apart of being nurturing people – these two (gesturing towards Broadbent and Sheen) growing things and all of that, being sort of greenish, you know, you can't dramatize an environmental film (laughs). That's boring. So that was one thing, and another thing was that I had a kind of sense of the spirit of the film which I shared with Dick Pope, the cinematographer, who did what he always does, which is to shoot tests. There's a certain kind of feeling, but we weren't sure exactly what we were looking for, so he shot three different looks.
At the same time as all those things were going on, we got the idea of Mary coming around to visit these characters [Tom and Gerri]. Someone you wouldn't normally tolerate. So the film couldn't have been set in a short time span, plainly. When I sat down to watch this test that he'd shot, it suddenly occurred: "I know what this is! It's the four seasons!" And so he said "which color, which of these possibilities, where should we go?" Once we got the idea of the four seasons, it really liberated the whole thing. It came out of all of those things together and it seemed to make absolute sense. I didn't realize that thematically, the whole thing is about time passing and cycling around, the endless nature of things. They're endless except there's a limit in life. That's the short answer!
Moving on to one of my favorite topics: research. (To Sheen and Broadbent…) How do you begin researching your character's occupations since that is a substantial part of your preparation?
Ruth Sheen: Well, first of all, we decide what the character is going to do. We sort of talked about what sort of person Gerri was and what she would like to do, and we decided that she would go to university and study psychology and eventually become a counselor. So our research led to different therapies and lots of different psycho-dynamic therapies, person-centered therapy, Mike gave me this great big book on psychology. So I did lots of reading, lots of research. It was quite difficult because I have no idea…but eventually I started getting it. But we decided that she would, because of her nature, be more interested in people. So in some ways, the in-person counseling was her thing, but she did it in her own way, although she had three or four different therapies that she studied and knew about and was qualified in. She actually took it upon herself to use her own common sense, her own feelings, in with it, in with the therapy, and we discussed it quite a lot, where she would go.
(to Broadbent) And what about with geology?
Jim Broadbent: With Tom, it was initially building up the character, and building up what sort of boy he is, when he's a little boy, when he's a teenager, he lives in the industrial Derbyshire that also has the pig district, and a dramatic, rural side to it, with quite dramatic geology. So, a part of his youth would have been spent traveling in that area. It seemed a natural thing for him to pursue the idea of geology, but he does have a degree in geology and engineering. We pursued engineering for a while, but it didn't quite sit easily with the character.
Mike Leigh: Actually, I got a kind of message – from wherever you get these kinds of messages from – to do with what would…actually, what I've just talked about, which is a certain environmental, planet aspect. Which helped me to help us to go to geology. (To Broadbent…) And I think made sense to you…
Jim Broadbent: Absolutely! Studying engineering…the more I got into it, the more it was going to be problematic for me to get my head around sophisticated engineering. Geology is something very exciting, particularly as it applied to people who were brought up adjacent to the Derbyshire pig district, you know? So it all made a great deal of sense. Then you go down the usual route: which A-levels did he take? Which year did he graduate in? Where the universities offering geology course are…So, you pursue that. We went up to Manchester, once we had established that [Tom and Gerri] had met at university. The two of us went up to Manchester and researched and went around and the university and imagined what they had done there and where they would have been…
Mike Leigh: (To Manville…) You had less scope, the more interesting kind of research, as dictated by the nature of the character…
Lesley Manville: Yes, I did on this particular project. The research into Mary's job was not that complicated. She's a secretary with some small leanings towards having a kind of medical sense, so that wasn't a big deal.
Mike Leigh: (To Manville…) So you got the short straw!
Lesley Manville: (Laughing) I did research Pinot Grigio in depth.